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Communication in Dentistry: The Four Habits Model

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This chapter will address some of the most basic tools in professional dentist-patient communication. Professional communication is essential in dental visits. Due to limitation of time, communication should be targeted to ensure sufficient information exchange needed to provide proper treatment.

The Four Habits Model is a basic tool that may serve as a structural framework for all dental visits, both for the visit as a whole and within each separate dialogue phase. The dental visit entails switching between dialogue phases and clinical phases. These are tools that need to be learned, practised and constantly developed throughout the career as a dental professional.

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  1. Oral Health Centre of Expertise in Eastern Norway (OHCE), Oslo, Norway

    Jorun Torper

  2. University of Oslo (UiO), Faculty of Dentistry, Oslo, Norway

    Kjetil Strøm & Ann Catrin Høyvik

  3. Dental Faculty, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Tiril Willumsen

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  1. Institute of Clinical Dentistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Tiril Willumsen

  2. Levanger Hospital, Levanger, Norway

    Jostein Paul Årøen Lein

  3. Social Dentistry & Behavioural Sciences, Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ronald C. Gorter

  4. Oral health center of expertice Mid-Norway, Trondheim, Norway

    Lena Myran

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Torper, J., Strøm, K., Høyvik, A.C., Willumsen, T. (2022). Communication in Dentistry: The Four Habits Model. In: Willumsen, T., Lein, J.P.Å., Gorter, R.C., Myran, L. (eds) Oral Health Psychology. Textbooks in Contemporary Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04248-5_6

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